Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Nature’s rules are universal, and nature has no taste.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.

Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun — you see how nature is indifferent to it all.

It is generally accepted that nature is an indifferent, not deceptive opponent, and it is upon this basis that the distinction is made between the natural and the human sciences.

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Nature . . . did not seem cruel to him then, nor beneficent, nor treacherous, nor wise. But she was indifferent, flatly indifferent.

What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally indifferent. It’s unforgiving, uninterested. If you live or die, succeed or fail, feel pleasure or pain, it doesn’t care. That’s intolerable to us. How can we live in a world so indifferent to us. So we redefine nature. We call it Mother Nature when it’s not a parent in any real sense of the term.

Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.

Nature does not make leaps.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.